About CETENA Founded in 1962 CETENA, the Italian Ship Research Centre, is a share company of Fincantieri Group committed from the very beginning to providing national and international customers with research projects and technical assistance on ship-related issues. CETENA has acquired a long-standing reputation for excellence in the fields of hydrodynamics, structures, sea trials and software for ship applications. Main research activities: Ship Hydrodynamics; Ship Structures; Full Scale Sea Trials; Information technology, virtual prototyping & virtual reality; Risk Analysis, ARM (Availability, Reliability and Maintainability), Ship Signatures, Simulation of Processes, ship performance monitoring, etc.; Ship and her components innovation; Navigability studies for harbours and terminals.